Many countries have joined the rush to go cashless by promoting wider adoption of digital #payments and legalizing cryptocurrencies. Still, it’s European countries like #Sweden that continue to be the models for cashless societies. The Riksbank, Sweden’s central bank, predicts that cash transactions will just be a mere 0.5 percent of all transactions by 2020. [&#8230;]Bank Innovation

Interactive forum with speakers from Hilton, Discover, Verifone and others will be held on Sept. 12, 2017 in Chicago. #Retail sales as a percentage of GDP exceed 50% for the largest economies in the world, and increasingly the future growth of the retail sector will be tied to the development and adoption of new #commerce [&#8230;]Bank Innovation

Algorithms are used in #retail fulfillment to determine whether a order should be filled from a warehouse or a store, or shipped from one store to another and figure the cheapest shipping method.Tom Groenfeldt – Financial Technology